Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 65 72
Rank change year-on-year -36 +7 -16
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,764 1,946 3,417
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.83% 4.18% 3.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.49% 4.57% 3.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,311 981 2,564
10th Percentile £46,526 £49,750 £42,650
25th Percentile £54,375 £58,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.97%
75th Percentile £93,634 £95,000 £83,759
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £104,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -7.14% +14.37% -9.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 70,838 42,616 86,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.43% 91.47% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 48,971 23,341 61,278
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.34% - -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 1 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 1 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -35 1,590 £75,000 +3.45% 653
UK excluding London -72 884 £65,000 -7.14% 410
Work from Home -28 794 £66,740 -4.66% 372
London -10 738 £85,000 +3.03% 321
North of England -40 344 £69,310 -4.40% 128
South East -22 243 £65,000 -7.14% 125
North West -51 190 £75,000 +3.45% 76
South West -68 92 £52,500 -23.39% 60
Midlands -70 91 £65,000 -3.70% 44
Yorkshire -31 78 £63,750 -12.07% 34
North East +11 76 £65,000 +18.18% 19
West Midlands -50 64 £77,500 +10.71% 30
East of England -17 48 £60,100 -3.84% 13
Wales -28 35 £70,000 +34.62% 17
Scotland -60 28 £60,000 -23.87% 17
East Midlands -64 26 £64,500 +7.50% 14
Northern Ireland -28 6 £62,500 +25.00% 9
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 - 2

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 30 (1.70%) Confluence
2 25 (1.42%) Apache Spark
3 16 (0.91%) CMS
4 15 (0.85%) Apache
4 15 (0.85%) IIS
5 10 (0.57%) JBoss
6 9 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.40%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.34%) Camunda
8 6 (0.34%) WordPress
9 5 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.28%) Drupal
9 5 (0.28%) nginx
10 4 (0.23%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.23%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.17%) DNN
11 3 (0.17%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.17%) Immediacy CMS
Applications
1 11 (0.62%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.34%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.34%) PlantUML
3 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.28%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.11%) Shopify
7 1 (0.057%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 950 (53.85%) AWS
2 780 (44.22%) Azure
3 321 (18.20%) GCP
4 260 (14.74%) Serverless
5 201 (11.39%) GitHub
6 178 (10.09%) SaaS
7 156 (8.84%) Azure DevOps
8 128 (7.26%) AWS Lambda
9 109 (6.18%) Amazon EKS
10 107 (6.07%) Amazon S3
11 92 (5.22%) AWS CloudFormation
12 81 (4.59%) Azure Service Bus
13 80 (4.54%) GitHub Copilot
14 76 (4.31%) Amazon ECS
15 68 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
16 62 (3.51%) Azure AKS
17 60 (3.40%) Amazon SQS
18 57 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
19 49 (2.78%) PaaS
20 46 (2.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 64 (3.63%) Broadband
2 24 (1.36%) Network Security
3 13 (0.74%) DMARC
4 12 (0.68%) MQTT
5 11 (0.62%) DNS
6 10 (0.57%) Internet
7 8 (0.45%) AMQP
7 8 (0.45%) Firewall
7 8 (0.45%) Hyperconnected
7 8 (0.45%) VPN
8 7 (0.40%) DHCP
9 6 (0.34%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.34%) HTTP
9 6 (0.34%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.28%) LTE
10 5 (0.28%) RFID
11 3 (0.17%) Modbus
12 2 (0.11%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.11%) SNMP
12 2 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 280 (15.87%) MongoDB
2 206 (11.68%) PostgreSQL
3 201 (11.39%) NoSQL
4 146 (8.28%) Elasticsearch
5 145 (8.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 113 (6.41%) MySQL
7 88 (4.99%) SQL Server
8 84 (4.76%) Relational Database
9 54 (3.06%) Redis
10 51 (2.89%) DynamoDB
11 48 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
12 29 (1.64%) Big Data
13 23 (1.30%) BigQuery
13 23 (1.30%) RDBMS
14 13 (0.74%) Pinecone
15 10 (0.57%) Db2
15 10 (0.57%) DTS
16 9 (0.51%) Data Lake
17 8 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
18 7 (0.40%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 207 (11.73%) Git
2 168 (9.52%) GitLab
3 139 (7.88%) Jenkins
4 58 (3.29%) TeamCity
5 54 (3.06%) JIRA
6 48 (2.72%) JUnit
7 40 (2.27%) Cucumber
8 31 (1.76%) Claude Code
8 31 (1.76%) Cypress.io
8 31 (1.76%) Mockito
9 28 (1.59%) CircleCI
10 27 (1.53%) Maven
11 19 (1.08%) Selenium
12 17 (0.96%) SonarQube
13 16 (0.91%) Vite
14 15 (0.85%) JMeter
15 14 (0.79%) Postman
16 13 (0.74%) REST Assured
17 10 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 9 (0.51%) Bitbucket
General
1 454 (25.74%) Finance
2 310 (17.57%) Social Skills
3 168 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 160 (9.07%) Banking
5 106 (6.01%) Retail
6 96 (5.44%) Analytical Skills
6 96 (5.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 91 (5.16%) Law
8 54 (3.06%) Financial Institution
9 49 (2.78%) Back Office
10 31 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
11 27 (1.53%) Telecoms
12 26 (1.47%) Marketing
13 21 (1.19%) Aerospace
14 17 (0.96%) Advertising
15 16 (0.91%) Billing
15 16 (0.91%) Games
15 16 (0.91%) Legal
16 12 (0.68%) Front Office
17 11 (0.62%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 631 (35.77%) Developer
2 404 (22.90%) Senior
3 352 (19.95%) Software Engineer
4 259 (14.68%) Lead
5 248 (14.06%) Architect
6 182 (10.32%) .NET Developer
7 145 (8.22%) Full-Stack Developer
8 138 (7.82%) Java Developer
9 125 (7.09%) Java Engineer
10 118 (6.69%) Senior Software Engineer
11 115 (6.52%) Senior Developer
12 98 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
13 87 (4.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 82 (4.65%) Principal Engineer
15 74 (4.20%) Software Developer
16 66 (3.74%) Lead Developer
17 62 (3.51%) DevOps Engineer
18 51 (2.89%) Senior Java Engineer
19 50 (2.83%) Java Software Engineer
20 49 (2.78%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 448 (25.40%) .NET
2 403 (22.85%) React
3 393 (22.28%) Node.js
4 290 (16.44%) Spring
5 270 (15.31%) Spring Boot
6 269 (15.25%) RESTful
7 239 (13.55%) REST
8 207 (11.73%) Kafka
9 206 (11.68%) ASP.NET
10 199 (11.28%) .NET Core
11 188 (10.66%) AngularJS
12 179 (10.15%) Vue
13 168 (9.52%) ASP.NET Core
14 100 (5.67%) ASP.NET Web API
15 94 (5.33%) .NET Framework
16 91 (5.16%) Blazor
17 90 (5.10%) HTML
18 84 (4.76%) CSS
19 82 (4.65%) gRPC
20 68 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 531 (30.10%) Cloud Native
2 297 (16.84%) Distributed Systems
3 120 (6.80%) Product Ownership
4 87 (4.93%) Legacy Systems
5 78 (4.42%) Enterprise Software
6 55 (3.12%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (2.61%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.55%) Over-the-Top Content
9 39 (2.21%) Onboarding
10 35 (1.98%) Public Cloud
11 30 (1.70%) AI Agents
12 29 (1.64%) Algorithms
13 27 (1.53%) Data Structures
14 26 (1.47%) e-Learning
15 25 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
15 25 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
16 24 (1.36%) Virtual Team
17 22 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
17 22 (1.25%) Mobile App
18 19 (1.08%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 107 (6.07%) Linux
2 47 (2.66%) Windows
3 20 (1.13%) Unix
4 12 (0.68%) CentOS
4 12 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.34%) Debian
5 6 (0.34%) Ubuntu
5 6 (0.34%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.17%) AIX
6 3 (0.17%) Android
6 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.057%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 885 (50.17%) CI/CD
2 795 (45.07%) Agile
3 645 (36.56%) DevOps
4 635 (36.00%) Software Engineering
5 507 (28.74%) Full-Stack Development
6 414 (23.47%) Containerisation
7 407 (23.07%) Mentoring
8 366 (20.75%) Test Automation
9 364 (20.63%) Event-Driven
10 350 (19.84%) AI
11 341 (19.33%) Infrastructure as Code
12 319 (18.08%) Continuous Improvement
13 294 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
14 251 (14.23%) Scrum
15 229 (12.98%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 220 (12.47%) TDD
17 218 (12.36%) Technical Leadership
18 202 (11.45%) Coaching
19 197 (11.17%) Clean Code
20 186 (10.54%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 577 (32.71%) Java
2 449 (25.45%) SQL
3 442 (25.06%) C#
4 428 (24.26%) Python
5 406 (23.02%) JavaScript
6 334 (18.93%) TypeScript
7 119 (6.75%) Go
8 49 (2.78%) Scala
9 44 (2.49%) PHP
10 42 (2.38%) C++
10 42 (2.38%) Ruby
11 41 (2.32%) Bash
12 25 (1.42%) Bicep
13 24 (1.36%) C
13 24 (1.36%) PowerShell
13 24 (1.36%) Rust
14 16 (0.91%) PL/SQL
15 14 (0.79%) Kotlin
16 11 (0.62%) Groovy
16 11 (0.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 217 (12.30%) Security Cleared
2 166 (9.41%) Degree
3 144 (8.16%) SC Cleared
4 77 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 60 (3.40%) AWS Certification
6 39 (2.21%) DV Cleared
7 34 (1.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 24 (1.36%) CISSP
9 20 (1.13%) Azure Certification
9 20 (1.13%) Master's Degree
10 13 (0.74%) DBS Check
11 12 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (0.51%) CISM
13 8 (0.45%) PhD
14 7 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (0.40%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.28%) ISACA
15 5 (0.28%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (6.92%) QA
2 62 (3.51%) Accessibility
3 40 (2.27%) GDPR
4 39 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (1.30%) NIST
5 23 (1.30%) PCI DSS
5 23 (1.30%) SOC 2
5 23 (1.30%) WCAG
6 16 (0.91%) NCSC
7 15 (0.85%) GRC
8 10 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
9 8 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
12 4 (0.23%) SEPA
13 3 (0.17%) Data Quality
13 3 (0.17%) IFRS
13 3 (0.17%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 514 (29.14%) Docker
2 22 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.23%) Firmware
3 4 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.057%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 551 (31.24%) Kubernetes
2 338 (19.16%) Terraform
3 99 (5.61%) Ansible
4 95 (5.39%) Grafana
5 53 (3.00%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.30%) Argo
7 21 (1.19%) Kibana
8 16 (0.91%) Puppet
9 13 (0.74%) Cilium
10 12 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.45%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.23%) Packer
12 4 (0.23%) Podman
13 3 (0.17%) Rancher
14 2 (0.11%) Istio
14 2 (0.11%) MIIS
14 2 (0.11%) Nagios
14 2 (0.11%) Opsgenie
14 2 (0.11%) Progress Chef
15 1 (0.057%) logstash
Vendors
1 269 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 75 (4.25%) Google
3 56 (3.17%) Oracle
4 45 (2.55%) Typelevel
5 34 (1.93%) OpenAI
6 24 (1.36%) Dynatrace
6 24 (1.36%) Splunk
7 17 (0.96%) AppDynamics
7 17 (0.96%) IBM
8 15 (0.85%) Databricks
9 14 (0.79%) Red Hat
10 13 (0.74%) Adobe
10 13 (0.74%) SendGrid
11 10 (0.57%) OneLogin
11 10 (0.57%) Salesforce
11 10 (0.57%) SAP
12 9 (0.51%) ServiceNow
13 8 (0.45%) Cisco
13 8 (0.45%) CrowdStrike
13 8 (0.45%) Guidewire